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Azadi Airport near the city of Karaj in Iran

  • September 1, 2015
Azadi Airport near the city of Karaj in Iran

The Azadi Airport is one of the largest private aviation centres in Iran and the Middle East, which also aim to work in research and other industrial activities. This privately owned airport provides facilities for pilot training and pleasurable flights for individuals and organizations. Men and women can attend theory classes and experience flights before being given internationally recognized certificates from the Civil Aviation Organization that would enable them to fly independently. The trainee pilots would also learn advanced manoeuvering and can fly to nearby cities in all directions in Iran. It is particularly favorable among enthusiasts flying to the seaside cities of Chalous, Noshahr and Ramsar by the Caspian Sea.

Mosadegh House in Ahmadabad

  • September 1, 2015
Mosadegh House in Ahmadabad

The house of the late Dr Mohammad Mosadegh and his tomb is located in the village of Ahmad Abad near the city of Karaj.

Mosaddegh was a prominent Iranian politician and Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. His democratically elected government was overthrown in a coup coordinated by American CIA and British MI6 agents. He was renown because of his policy against foreign domination and support for nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, revoking the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which was imposed on Iran since 1913, exploiting cheap oil and profiting for nearly 40 years.

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